Year 8 - German
Describe others: adjective agreement (accusative), female person nouns with -in
Who am I? Adjective agreement, 'weil' and 'denn'
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Unit Summary
This unit introduces prenominal adjective agreement in nominative and accusative cases. It equips pupils with the knowledge to describe themselves and others in more detail. It will also analyse how to vary giving reasons with 'denn' (word order 1) or 'weil' (word order 3).
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify adjective endings in reading, apply them when describing others and when translating text from English into German.
Key Notes
- [r] needs practice to distinguish its pronunciation depending on its within-word position and surrounding letters.
- Feminine words for jobs often add -in to the masculine noun, often resulting in the mid-word consonantal [r] sound.
- When adjectives come before nouns, they have different endings depending on the noun gender, type of article and case.
- Singular accusative adjective endings for indefinite articles are: -en (masculine), -e (feminine) and -es (neuter).
- For accusative plural nouns after 'keine', the adjective ending is -en; without an article the accusative ending is -e.
Vocabulary To Learn
- [r]: sound-symbol correspondence (SSC) pronounced as in 'reden' and 'Uhr'
- adjective agreement: when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
- accusative: form(s) used for the object or 'receiver' of the action of the verb
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The [r] sound in German is always the same, regardless of where it appears within the word.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
[r] needs practice to distinguish its pronunciation depending on its within-word position and surrounding letters. Feminine words for jobs often add -in to the masculine noun, often resulting in the mid-word consonantal [r] sound.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. '[r]'
sound-symbol correspondence (SSC) pronounced as in 'reden' and 'Uhr'. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: The [r] sound in German is always the same, regardless of where it appears within the word. Correction: German [r] can be pronounced in different ways. [r] is a gentle 'rolling' vibration pronounced from the back of the throat, if [r] is at a syllable start, after a consonant or between two vowels. [r] is a gentle 'ah' sound after a long vowel.
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